Administration for Children and Families January 10, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) is issuing final interpretive rules, general statements of policy and rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice relating to the following Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs): Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS), Social and Economic Development StrategiesTribal Governance (SEDSTG), Social and Economic Development Strategies Assets for Independence (SEDSAFI), Native Language Preservation and Maintenance (Language P&M), Native Language Preservation and MaintenanceEsther Martinez Initiative (LanguageEMI), and Environmental Regulatory Enhancement (ERE). This notice also provides information about how ANA will administer these programs.

This notice announces and informs the public of the revised Head Start Child Outcomes Framework, renamed The Head Start Child Development and Learning Framework: Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3-5 Years Old. The Framework was revised to give more prominence to the information part of the initial document. The revisions do not create new requirements on Head Start and delegate agencies. The revised Framework continues to identify the developmental outcomes that Head Start and delegate agencies have been responsible for addressing in their Head Start preschool programs serving 3 to 5 year old children since the original was published in 2000.